I have had both personal and professional experience attempting to manage many of these species including autumn olive, garlic mustard, bicolor lespedeza, Amur honeysuckle, Japanese honeysuckle, common reed, kudzu, and Japanese knotweed. The state and federal governments have both spent hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars attempting to protect important natural areas from the invasive plants to limited effect. Please add these species to the noxious weed list and consider restricting their sale in Virginia - any monetary gains from the sale of these species will be far outweighed by the tax dollars being spent to control them